[plug] Re: Perl Question: Searching an array

[David Buddrige]

thanks heaps! 8-) 

David. 

Brad Hill writes: 

> convert the array to a hash and then it's trivial: 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl 
> 
> @myarray = ( "fish", "chicken", "beef" );
> %myhash = @myarray;
> print "found fash" if $myhash{"fash"};
> print "found fish" if $myhash{"fash"}; 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Buddrige" <buddrige at wasp.net.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:39 PM
> Subject: [plug] Perl Question: Searching an array 
> 
> 
>> Hi all, 
>>
>> I have a perl program that contains a very large array.  I want to search
>> this array to determine if it contains a particular value.  Is there a
>> faster way to search the array than this? 
>>
>>
>> $search_val = "text-to-look-for";
>> $found = "false";
>> foreach $line ( @myarray )
>> {
>>    if ( $search_val == $line )
>>    {
>>        $found = "true";
>>    }
>> } 
>>
>> I've beeen reading through "Learning Perl" but can't find any answer on
> this
>> one. 8-) 
>>
>>
>> thanks heaps guys 
>>
>> David Buddrige
>